Monthly Archives: May 2015

The Theme for next weeks meeting is Temperance.
What is practical and wise to desire? Where does practicality end and ostentation begin? What can we learn about Temperance from each other, what is the Stoic perspective and how can we employ it day to day? Stop by and join the discussion!

The REDWOOD STOA

San Leandro, CA 21Stoics

A low-key group, begun in the Bay Area in late 2013, to explore the Stoic philosophy and further our lives. Stoicism is a Hellenistic philosophy, in which we promote Reason an…

*Also, help the group add to its ‘maxims tool box’ by bringing catchy or poignant phrases that have helped you in life. This project to collect useful sayings is just getting started and your input is invited!

The measure of possession (property) is to every man the body, as the foot is of the shoe. If then you stand on this rule (the demands of the body), you will maintain the measure: but if you pass beyond it, you must then of necessity be hurried as it were down a precipice. As also in the matter of the shoe, if you go beyond the (necessities of the) foot, the shoe is gilded, then of a purple color, then embroidered: for there is no limit to that which has once passed the true measure.

Epictetus – Enchiridion XXXIX

Happiness isn’t having more, but needing less.

He who knows he has enough, is rich

Salvete, Omnes!

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